#we are stardust

[thedepressexpress]

I want to talk about how "we are stardust" has become a cliche and I hate that it's become a cliche

to say that we are stardust isn't a romanticized version of the truth. it is the truth.

a science lesson for anyone who's interested (stick with me here):

when the universe was born, everything was really hot, so hot that it couldn't combine into atoms, and when it cooled down enough stuff like helium and hydrogen (and some other elements in small quantities) were made. there was nothing else.

because of stuff like density and gravity, that gas collapsed into stars. and most of those stars became red dwarf stars which have trapped all that material inside them, burning so slowly that none of them have ever released that stuff back out because they live for trillions of years.

of the stars that didn't become red dwarfs some stars started burning, changing hydrogen to helium then carbon and nitrogen and then they die, exploding into these beautiful noisy planetary nebulae. those explosion are where the material for the carbon and nitrogen in your body come from. that's what we mean when we say we're made of stardust. you are a living tomb for the corpse of a million stars, separated from them by space and time.

only a few stars get really big and burn a lot more and make iron. the iron in apples that makes them turn brown and your blood that makes it possible for you to live and breathe. those stars didn't just slowly build up to that moment over time like the stars that made your carbon and nitrogen. they took a few seconds to make a supernova that blew all the atoms that are currently in your body into space and eventually they found themselves in you, making you everything that you are. those explosion are so powerful that if a lot of them happen in a small enough space they can break galaxy disks and leak into their halos.

and these explosions, they are so incredible and loud and the universe is screaming to make the stuff that you are made of.

you aren't just made of stars, you are the result of billions of years of life and death on such a cosmic scale that we may never experience it, not in this lifetime or the next or the one after that.

in physics, sometimes we simplify interactions and say that matter knows. that matter knows the most stable configurations to be in and it knows how to decay to become stable if it isn't and it knows how to feel gravity.

in that sense, stars know when they're dying but they don't know what they'll become. if they'll get lost in gas that never becomes anything else or if they'll become the heart of a whole new star or if they'll become part of rocks or life or your shoelaces.

idk i just feel like there's more to it than just being stardust. there's billions of lifetimes that go into who you are and that's not to add pressure on you to be something extraordinary in this life. it's just what this is like, exploding and living and dying and always becoming something else so you aren't just from stars and part of this cosmic history either, we're part of the cycle so it makes sense that we explode and live and die and keep becoming someone else.

ok byeeee

#actually mentally ill #actually borderline #we are stardust #astronomy #science side of tumblr #how can you expect to feel sane when every part of you has exploded into a stellar marvel before you even got here #rant post #rant

[leiromantics]

Its amazing that you can look up into the sky and see athousand fragments of yourself

#stars #we are stardust #poetry #poems on tumblr #healing #web weaving

[beenjen]

Sing it Willie 🌟 💫 ⭐️

#we are stardust #stardust #willie nelson #east nashville #mellow r us #nashville #Spotify

[greatwolfcloud]

#aesthetic #stars #aestehtic #spacecore #moon #space #stars aesthetic #so pretty #moon aesthetic #star #we are living stars #we are stardust #we are star stuff #we are just living stars masquerading as people

[zukkaart]

Sokka would unironically have the “We Are Stardust” song as his ringtone. He’s so astronomer core and would be Niel Degrasse Tysons #1 fan

#avatar the last airbender #sokka #atla #sokka avatar the last airbender #astronomy #we are stardust #neil degrasse tyson

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“We do not simply live in this universe.

The universe lives within us.”

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Neil deGrasse Tyson #universe #stardust #we are stardust #we are all stardust #infinite universe #religion is a mental illness

[x1tadpole1x]

blabbing about space and stardust

gosh the very fact that we are made up of the very same elements that come from stars themselves, that literally wouldn't exist if it wasn't for those said stars, makes me feel so good about life

we are literally made of the same cosmos that we are so enthralled by. we share the same dna, the same make up, as giant celestial bodies. we are the very same thing in a different format

and adding on to that the universe is HUGE. in my opinion, there is very little chance we are alone, the universe is just so vast, but if we are truly alone in this infinite void, then we are a miracle of life itself

sometimes that can make people feel useless and small, which i understand, but YOU'RE NOT!!!!!

that is the galaxy cluster that our own little galaxy is apart of. not our planet, our galaxy, the one that already dwarves us. we are absolutely miniscule (in the way of size, not worth) that's why i say we are not insignificant and our existence does matter, because of the very MIRACLE of it

if we are alone, then our planet is the only thing with life and no matter how you see our world coming to be, there is a very slim chance of that happening, as evident by all the other planets with no life. we are a once in a lifetime event and therefore in my eyes, here for a reason, even if just to live life

and at the same time we are made of the elements that come from the very same things that dwarf us so

#i'm just blabbing here but gosh it makes me feel so good about life #and i want to share it with EVERYONE #we are stardust #space #happy chatter #long post #spaceblr #i love space and stars and the cosmos and the sheer size of it all #posting this makes me nervous cus i feel like some people will find it silly lol

[thanatophobia-thoughts]

There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

#Neil deGrasse Tyson #wholesome sunday #wholesome quotes #positive quotes #we are stardust #star #star quotes #galaxy quotes #universe quotes

[blackwell008]

#The Universe #spiritual awareness #The Universe is inside of us #We are small parts of The Universe #we are stardust #spiritual awakening

[drelldreams]

wanted to share this thanemara (samara/thane) fic. 💗

#thanemara #fic rec #we are stardust #its so sweet #thane/samara #rarepair

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

#jwst #jwst images #crab nebula #supernova #space #we are stardust

[aistoqe]

#stars #we are stardust

[liftingthesea]

#no fear #surreal #we are stardust

[rosesareredandtheskyisthelimit]

#life #stars #univese #stardust #we are stardust #miss #longing #craving #desire #miss us #dreams #quotable #i wonder

[greatwolfcloud]

Oh how I love being a living star. A being so bright and warm floating and playing in space until I one day get to be a real human. Until then I shall watch and observe until it is my turn to walk along humans and love you all.

#we are living stars just trying to masquerade as people. #aesthetic #stars #aestehtic #spacecore #moon #space #stars aesthetic #so pretty #moon aesthetic #star #starcore #mooncore #we are stardust #we are star stuff

[lenbryant]

Zora Neale Hurston, "We are stardust" basically.

#zora neale hurston #we are stardust #cosmic #atoms